Title Past climate variability in South America and surrounding regions : from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene / edited by Françoise Vimeux, Florence Sylvestre, Myriam Khodri

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 418 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) Series Developments in paleoenvironmental research ; v. 14 Developments in paleoenvironmental research ; v. 14. Contents Moisture pattern during the Last Glacial Maximum in South America / Florence Sylvestre -- Orbital and millennial-scale precipitation changes in Brazil from speleothem records / Francisco W. Cruz [and others] -- Chronologies of the Last Glacial Maximum and its termination in the Andes (̃10-55°S) based on surface exposure dating / Roland Zech, Jacqueline Smith, and Michael R. Kaplan -- Vegetation and fire at the Last Glacial Maximum in tropical South America / Francis E. Mayle [and others] -- Re-evaluation of climate change in lowland Central America during the Last Glacial Maximum using new sediment cores from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala / Mark B. Bush [and others] -- Glacial to Holocene paleoceanographic and continental paleoclimate reconstructions based on ODP Site 1233/GeoB 3313 off southern Chile / Frank Lamy and Jérome Kaiser -- Teleconnections into South America from the tropics and extratropics on interannual and intraseasonal timescales / Alice M. Grimm and Tercio Ambrizzi -- South American climate variability and change : remote and regional forcing processes / Kerry H. Cook -- Sensitivity of South American tropical climate to Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions : focus on teleconnections with tropics and extratropics / Myriam Khodri, Masa Kageyama, and Didier M. Roche -- Similarities and discrepancies between Andean ice cores over the last deglaciation : climate implications / Françoise Vimeux -- Mid-Holocene climate of tropical South America : a model-data approach / Pedro L. Silva Dias [and others] -- Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum / Dunia H. Urrego [and others] -- The nature and origin of decadal to millennial scale climate variability in the southern tropics of South America : the Holocene record of Lago Umayo, Peru / Paul A. Baker [and others] -- Hydrological variability in South America below the Tropic of Capricorn (Pampas and Patagonia, Argentina) during the last 13.0 Ka / Eduardo L. Piovano [and others] -- Climate change in southern South America during the last two millennia / Christopher M. Moy [and others] -- The Little Ice Age in southern South America : proxy and model based evidence / Inka Meyer and Sebastian Wagner Summary This book groups together overviews and original research papers dealing with South American climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. The contributions deal with tropical, temperate and high latitudes climate variability in South America and in surrounding regions (including Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Antarctica). It offers results obtained from both natural climate archives and recent simulations from coupled climate models. The objective is to propose a state of the art about our knowledge of past climate variability in South America. Specifically, this book aims at presenting the whole available observations and at discussing climate mechanisms, specifically the low to high latitude teleconnections on that continent which spreads out from the equator to Patagonia. It is written by an expert group of climate change scientists, and presents an insight into dynamics of the past and provides climate modellers with work of reference for data-model comparison. The book is an advanced but very readable text essential for all students and scientists interested in global environmental change Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Paleoclimatology -- South America -- Congresses Paleoclimatology -- Pleistocene -- Congresses Paleoclimatology -- Holocene -- Congresses Last Glacial Maximum -- Congresses NATURE -- Weather. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology. Sciences de la terre. Environnement. Climatology Holocene Geologic Period Last Glacial Maximum Paleoclimatology Pleistocene Geologic Epoch SUBJECT South America -- Climate -- Congresses Subject South America Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Vimeux, Françoise. Sylvestre, Florence. Khodri, Myriam. AGU Fall Meeting (2006 : San Francisco, Calif.) ISBN 9789048126729 904812672X

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